The casting clues are back… and boy are they harder than ever. George R. R. Martin has posted a Game of Thrones casting clue, as he recently said he would do. At least, I think it is a casting clue post, judging from the icon and the tag. Here it is:

Just For the Record…

… I am not Oliver King.

I did, however, inspire him.

Winter Is Coming: Excited to see the clues back! Of course, I have no idea what it means…

UPDATE: It seems this is not a casting clue post, but rather a post from Martin indicating that he has inspired a fictional character in an upcoming movie called The Callback Queen.

King organised the restoration of Bath Abbey after 1500. The story of the refounding is told on the front of the Abbey in carved Bath stone. King had a dream in which he saw a host of Angels on a ladder, the Holy Trinity and an olive tree with a crown on it. He heard a voice:

‘Let an Olive establish the crown, and let a King restore the Church.’

King believed this was a call for him to support the candidature of Henry Tudor as King, and to restore the Abbey.

Guess: The guy in the fake cover is the “I” (either the “horatio king” name, or the real guy in the picture), and the character he plays has something in common with what inspired the real Oliver King.

I just read that same wiki entry. I also found this website that says that motif is very prevalent in religious architecture and that the dream story was probably made up years later. /shrug

As for what it all means, I have no idea other than it gave me a Melisandre vibe. Quoted from the wiki page “King believed this was a call for him to support the candidature of Henry Tudor as King, and to restore the Abbey” It sounds similar to Mel deciding to support Stannis because of the lord of light prophecy.

:Edit: I’m at work and the picture of the book doesn’t show up. So I guess my Mel theory doesn’t actually hold up since I didn’t have all the info. :/

Also, I googled 22:22, and a prominent Bible verse that cropped up is:

NIV: 1 Kings 22:22 “‘By what means?’ the LORD asked. “‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,’ he said. “‘You will succeed in enticing him,’ said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.’

I’m gonna go with the Mel vibe also based on what you guys have already surfaced in the last five minutes…but this one’s definitely tricky. Let’s see who the first one to earn the scooby snack is…I love this stuff!

I’m quite sure there’s a reference there to BBC’s recent series Outcasts! It has Call (Daniel Mays) as an ‘outcast’ living between the ‘normal’ humans on Karpathia. Too many similarities with GRRM’s text I find! His ‘true love’ there, who was captured for some time, was Amy Manson (no idea about a clue there).

Ok, I’m probably wrong, but my guess is SOMEONE from Outcasts got cast, and based on the clues it’s most likely Daniel Mays. Which I didn’t find an impressive actor, I have to say… My other even wilder guess is that it is his ‘evil uncle’ that got cast, either Langley Kirkwood or the brilliant-as-a-bad-guy Eric Mabius…

Haha, I’ve suggested enough wrong names now ;-)

EDIT: How could I forget? On Karpathia the closest to a King was the character of Richard Tate, played by the very authorative Liam Cunningham. I would be very happy to see HIM cast on GoT…

Oliver King was associated with the restoration of an Abbey. MacFadyen played the monk who dreamt about building a cathedral in “Pillars of the Earth” And the bio for Horatio King says he is writing “Pillars of Time”

Oliver King was associated with the restoration of an Abbey.McFayden played the monk who dreamt about building a cathedral in “Pillars of the Earth”And the bio for horatio king it says he is writing “pillars of time”

Oliver King was associated with the restoration of an Abbey.McFayden played the monk who dreamt about building a cathedral in “Pillars of the Earth”And the bio for horatio king it says he is writing “pillars of time”

I believe he was a quite popular suggestion for Stannis in the Stannis casting thread? If this turns out to be correct, I think it would be just the right type of actor (known, but not overly famous) to add to the cast for season 2!

I like Matthew MacFayden a lot as an actor, but I recall when he left Spooks he seemed to think that 18-ish episodes & 2 years on a series was a really long time. I wonder if he’ll agree to be in something that he could end up being part of for years and years.

Then again, he didn’t exactly become the movie star he was apparently hoping to be, so…

Oliver King was associated with the restoration of an Abbey.McFayden played the monk who dreamt about building a cathedral in “Pillars of the Earth”And the bio for horatio king it says he is writing “pillars of time”

Thanks for the effort, but apparently image shack is blocked as well. Guess I’ll just have to wait until I get home (about 3 hours from now) to look. Of course, the rest of you will totally have it broken down and figured out by then. *grin*

Could it be that Ian McShane is playing some role in S2? Maybe Stannis? Although I think he’s too old for that role.

– He played in 44 inch chest film (“22:22 publishing”; 22+22 is 44)
– He played a king in TV series Kings (“King is alleged author of Prince of chaos)
– He played in Pillars of the earth (Martin mentions “PILLARS OF time” as one of the books in the trilogy)
– He plays in Pirates of Carribean where posters of the film depict TWO SWORDS and a skull and on the Book cover we have TWO SWORDs and a crown

Quite sure that’s just a red herring, but the thought made me cringe. Tamzin Merchant was fine in The Tudors, but she has no voice to play an authorative character. That said, GRRM really likes here, so I wouldn’t be surprized if at some point she would turn up again…

It is may be a long stretch but I can’t stop thinking of Liam Cunningham. He played Agravaine in “The First Knight” and in contrary of the Arthurian Tales he did heroic deeds which inspired King Arthur if I am remember correctly.

If its a clue for Ian McShane this quote from Martin “I am not Oliver King. I did, however, inspire him.” could be a reference to “On Stranger Tides” book by Tim Powers which INSPIRED Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides movie.

I’m thinking GRRM had that cover made up for this very hint, which is why it took a few days after he originally posted that some clues would be forthcoming. That would mean that we really need to analyze the whole damn book cover.

THANK YOU!!!! After a quick perusal, I get a very “Wheel of Time” vibe from it. Lord of Chaos is a book title, Wheel of Time the series title (obviously, lol), Andor instead of Andalara. Other than that, I’ve got nothing so far. I’ll keep staring and searching.

For what it’s worth, the actor in the black-and-white photo is Andy Devine. He was a character actor who also hosted a TV program called Andy’s Gang on NBC-TV from August 20,1955 to December 31,1960. He interacted with several characters on the show, including Froggy the Gremlin who is in the photo.

Well if we’re talking Pillars of the Earth, there is Eddie Redmayne as well, who also – for somebody above who asked if there were any angelically named actors/actresses about – played Angel Clare in Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

The book mentions a trilogy- is it possible three actors have been cast? There are so many possible clues there.

Oliver King’s vision was to do with the holy trinity. There’s three items in the picture- crown, flames and swords. Three names in the blurb- Cal, Grace and Krohl.

So maybe we have three actors? Crown- Stannis (or Balon), Flames- Melisandre (or Ygritte- kissed by fire), Swords- anyone who uses a sword!

Other things that stood out- the names of the two nations, Karakthenia and Andalara. King and Prince both mentioned prominently. One of the quotes being attributed to a London newspaper. 22:22. Horatio (clue to the king character?). Chaos. The other titles- the fire character has something to do with a wheel. Someone (pillars- who was in pillars of the Earth?) has something to do with time (Doctor Who?).

“Krohl” appears to be the Westernized spelling of the Polish word for “king” – or very close to it. Not that we needed more “kings”, but maybe this hints to either a shooting location for the character or a nationality of the actor?

I don’t think Henry VII inspired Oliver King to restore the Abby, the vision inspired him to support Henry’s bid for the crown and to restore the Abby. I think the conjecture that MacFayden’s character in Pillars of the Earth was inspired by Oliver King is more on the right track. Prince of Chaos is a reference to Stannis. What about Wheel of Fire? MacFayden played a character in a movie call Incendiary…

Anvil:
It is may be a long stretch but I can’t stop thinking of Liam Cunningham. He played Agravaine in “The First Knight” and in contrary of the Arthurian Tales he did heroic deeds which inspired King Arthur if I am remember correctly.

Another perspective of why this is about Stannis (and possibly Davos), is that the character of Horatio from Hamlet is very much like Davos in personality/role…loyal, levelheaded, etc. Having the *writer* in the clue being Horatio lines up with *Davos* as the POV/writer for Stannis’s story.

In the divinatory tarot, there are 22 major arcana cards. These cards are numbered 0-21, so it is a matter of interpretation whether The Fool or The World is card number 22. The latter card is almost always associated with hard workers, a red-gold colour, and a rose-gold gemstone. The digital root of the 22 is the 4, which is the number of hard work.

I have to say I really enjoyed making The Tudors”, Neill said, “It was six months with a character that I found immensely intriguing, with a cast that I liked very much and with a story I found very compelling. It has elements that are hard to beat: revenge and betrayal, lust and treason, all the things that make for good stories

A quick search of Horation King Dream brought up this interesting old article. Brings me back to Mel… She claims to have prophetic visions and IMO has been lying to Stannis (aka Horatio King) about the truth of her visions. Thoughts?

“I’m not Oliver King” = King Oliver
King Oliver was a Jazz musician,
“I did however inspire him” = Louis Armstrong was King Olivers’ protege,
Jonas Armstrong is a british actor who played in BBC’s “Robin Hood”,
Jonas Armstrong = Davos?
How much furhter can I fetch it? :-)

I would be highly surprized if GRRM listens to Kraftwerk :-) Anyway, someone else already found the barcode to belong to an album of Bob Dylan (if I remember correctly – it’s somewhere higher in the thread), which I find a more likely candidate. Then again, if two albums from two eras have the same barcode, it might also mean nothing…

Oliver King was associated with the restoration of an Abbey.MacFadyen played the monk who dreamt about building a cathedral in “Pillars of the Earth”And the bio for Horatio King says he is writing “Pillars of Time”

David Oakes was so impressive in PotE, but he’s far too young for Stannis! Well, in the books Stannis is in his early 30s, and David is in his late 20s, but in the show they’ve aged Robert (who’s supposed to be a year older than Stannis) up, so I don’t think David fits. But he’s perfect with red hair, so… Edmure? Edmure is like, 28 in a Storm of Swords? I don’t remember exactly, but I think he’s around that age. Definitely middle to late twenties!

This is the bar code of the book, the DVD for ‘Dorian Gray’. (directed by OLIVER Parker) Colin Firth plays in this movie. Colin Firth had the lead in ‘The King’s Speech’, as KING George VI. ‘The King’s Speech’ was cast by Nina Gold.

Something else… searching for 22:22 brought me to the Vimeo page for “22:22 Productions”… which appearantly has been working on some projects with Amy-Joyce Hastings… check out her IMDB pic… remind you of anyone??

It may be a random guess, since it overall seems to point to Baratheon house, but if the “king” in the clue is the author of “Prince of chaos”, for me it rings a bell with Balon being Theon’s father, who became a prince after his father was proclaimed king.

If we leave Pillars of Earth aside, and do a switch with “forthcoming book” titles, we get pillars of fire, which is another biblical reference (along with 22:22). Pillars of fire are manifestation of god by night, so it maybe points to a character, Melisandre of course. Perhaps an actress named Olive (from the Oliver King hint). However, name has many variants – Olivia, Livia, Liv… Plenty of ideas there :)

Agreed on it sounding like Mel. Then again, what little clue searching I’ve done has all reminded me of Mel. I think if this is a triple clue, it’s gotta be Mel and Stannis, along with (Fill in the blank here).

I would much prefer Rufus Sewell for Stannis. Rufus has an intimidating element to his on screen persona which Stannis requires. Robert may have been able to glad0hand and Renly may be princely – but Stannis was the brother who narroed his eyes, nursed his hurts and jaelousis and was to be feared.

GRRM says: “For the Record I am not Oliver King, I did however inspire him.” Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden (who was also known as ‘King’ Bolden) inspired Joe ‘King’ Oliver. No idea what that may mean though …

AliveDracula wrote:
May. 26th, 2011 06:33 pm (UTC)
Morgan Deare
So apparently this actor Morgan Deare is going to play Horatio King in an upcoming film The Callback Queen. Don’t really understand the other hints.

I think we have clues that point to three different actors being cast, and the main characters in the fake novel pointing to who they’ll be playing – worth noting is that Asimov wrote a story called “Cal” about a robot who wanted to learn to write from its master. Davos, anyone?

When Oliver King restored Bath Abbey, the facade was decorated with a scene of angels ascending a ladder to heaven. Kings’s inspiration for this was Jacob and his dream of the eponymous Ladder (Genesis 28). So if I had to guess, our actor would be named Jacob, or else have recently played a well known character with that name.

As an aside, Jacob’s dream occurred on the road to Harran – so an alternative interpretation might be that the casting is for one of the characters who is mainly associated with Harranhal next season (Roose? Vargo?).

I’m thinking the hint is only for one person. Which is why all the language indicates first person. GRRM is very good about hinting at the number of people he’s posting about, so I’m pretty sure there’s only one person, and that it’s Amy Joyce Hastings based on all the speculation so far. The rest of the book cover other than “Horatio King”, the picture of the author, and the 22:22 Productions is likely just filler that GRRM amused himself with.

Ro:
I’m thinking the hint is only for one person.Which is why all the language indicates first person.GRRM is very good about hinting at the number of people he’s posting about, so I’m pretty sure there’s only one person, and that it’s Amy Joyce Hastings based on all the speculation so far.The rest of the book cover other than “Horatio King”, the picture of the author, and the 22:22 Productions is likely just filler that GRRM amused himself with.

MikeFromBraavos:
Something else… searching for 22:22 brought me to the Vimeo page for “22:22 Productions”… which appearantly has been working on some projects with Amy-Joyce Hastings… check out her IMDB pic… remind you of anyone??

Steel_Wind: As Melisandre? I would agree. This seems to be the best bet.

She’s not Horatio King — she inspired him (in the Callback Queen)

Actually, are we sure that the clue means that Morgan Daere is cast, or was he just part of the clue meaning to lead to Hastings? Or even to Rachel Cullen who plays in both Hear me Now (directed by Hastings) and The Callback Queen? GRRM’s comment is not entirely clear about this, and man, we know he likes to trick us :-)

Also the casting side for Mel is already out there, and it’s not impossible they’ll cast Ygritte during filming rather than immediately because she doesn’t show up until the end of the season. Like maybe even the last two episodes.

I’m pretty sure the bar code is a red herring. I’ve gotten multiple hits for various albums by searching for it. However, what’s more important I think is that if you google image search for “barcode” it’s the 2nd result. I think they just picked it at random to make it look authentic.

Nevermind. Not only has someone already pointed this out, the puzzle has already been solved.

Brian Talbott:
On Amy Joyce Hastings’ Facebook wall she wrote about an hour ago:“loves a good bit of mischief! >;)”

She’s certainly rockin that red hair.

+ She likes the Game Of Thrones page, this could just be since she is a fan of fantasy and she auditioned for Doreah though. (If her fb page is real, guessing she´s not famous enough for it not to be.) :P

Assuming we are correct with AJH and(/or) MD, and there are no other castings to be found, then I wonder how much longer it took George to come up with the clues than it took House Gatewatch to unravel them :-)

Perhaps there’s a reason GRRM inserted the book cover picture in between his two lines. The first line is “I am not Oliver King.” Then he shows the book cover of an author named Horatio King and then the line, “But I did inspire him.” So maybe the inspire part is that AJH inspired Horatio King (Morgan Deare).

The “blood-spewing dragons” could theoretically be linked to the sacrifices Mel says are necessary to wake the dragons – she calls out for royal blood repeatedly. Along those lines, the “vile beasts” could be the shadow babies. I’m not sure about the “dead ancestors” though…

George just sent me a message about the casting specualtion on WIC.net about his blog. The reality is that while I would love to audition for Melisandre or Ygritte, I have not yet done so, nevermind being already cast!

‘The Callback Queen’ is a romantic comedy feature film the plot of which revolves around an actress auditioning for a movie adaptation of a series of fantasy novels (fictional) by the (again fictional) author Horatio King – George R R Martin was the inspiration for that character and the GOT series inspired the ‘Prince of Chaos’ book/film in the storyline. The image above is a graphic book jacket used as a prop in a scene in the film. Morgan Deare is the actor who plays Horatio in the film.

I’m very flattered people assumed I was cast in GOT but wanted to set the record straight! Hope that helps clear up any remaining mystery! Thanks to George for creating a little buzz around the film too.

George just sent me a message about the casting specualtion on WIC.net about his blog. The reality is that while I would love to audition for Melisandre or Ygritte, I have not yet done so, nevermind being already cast!

‘The Callback Queen’ is a romantic comedy feature film the plot of which revolves around an actress auditioning for a movie adaptation of a series of fantasy novels (fictional) by the (again fictional) author Horatio King – George R R Martin was the inspiration for that character and the GOT series inspired the ‘Prince of Chaos’ book/film in the storyline. The image above is a graphic book jacket used as a prop in a scene in the film. Morgan Deare is the actor who plays Horatio in the film.

I’m very flattered people assumed I was cast in GOT but wanted to set the record straight! Hope that helps clear up any remaining mystery! Thanks to George for creating a little buzz around the film too.

George just sent me a message about the casting specualtion on WIC.net about his blog. The reality is that while I would love to audition for Melisandre or Ygritte, I have not yet done so, nevermind being already cast!

‘The Callback Queen’ is a romantic comedy feature film the plot of which revolves around an actress auditioning for a movie adaptation of a series of fantasy novels (fictional) by the (again fictional) author Horatio King – George R R Martin was the inspiration for that character and the GOT series inspired the ‘Prince of Chaos’ book/film in the storyline. The image above is a graphic book jacket used as a prop in a scene in the film. Morgan Deare is the actor who plays Horatio in the film.

I’m very flattered people assumed I was cast in GOT but wanted to set the record straight! Hope that helps clear up any remaining mystery! Thanks to George for creating a little buzz around the film too.

Best wishes,

Amy-Joyce Hastings

Well now you’re part of the WIC family so we’ll be pushing for you to get a role!

George just sent me a message about the casting specualtion on WIC.net about his blog. The reality is that while I would love to audition for Melisandre or Ygritte, I have not yet done so, nevermind being already cast!

‘The Callback Queen’ is a romantic comedy feature film the plot of which revolves around an actress auditioning for a movie adaptation of a series of fantasy novels (fictional) by the (again fictional) author Horatio King – George R R Martin was the inspiration for that character and the GOT series inspired the ‘Prince of Chaos’ book/film in the storyline. The image above is a graphic book jacket used as a prop in a scene in the film. Morgan Deare is the actor who plays Horatio in the film.

I’m very flattered people assumed I was cast in GOT but wanted to set the record straight! Hope that helps clear up any remaining mystery! Thanks to George for creating a little buzz around the film too.

You are correct that it is mostly a vibe. None of it is concrete, but it definitely pointed me to her.

In the wiki article it says that Oliver King had a religious toned dream (angels, ladder to heaven) that inspired him to not only restore the abbey, but also support Henry Tudor as king. Melisandre is religiously inspired through visions/dreams/prophecy to support Stannis as King. I have a vague memory that she thinks the dragon gargoyles at Dragonstone could come to life, which would also be restoring a castle (not quite the same as an abbey.)

I also found an odd, old NY Times article (I linked to it above) about a letter written to one Oliver King from a friend stating that he’d had dreams about his own murder, and then the author of the letter disappeared. It ended up that he faked his murder and lied to Mr. King. As I think Mel is lying to Stannis about some of her visions, this points me in her direction as well.

::EDIT:: Apparently a lot happened while I was writing this, so my theories are null and void, but *shrug* oh well.

OMG, wow… I guess we should have paid attention to the fact that GRRM wasn’t using his froggy icon XD
A shame though, you would make such a lovely Mel.
That being said I hope I get to see you in the “The Callback Queen” :)

Why are we concluding it’s not a casting clue? Just because GRRM inserted something that takes us way off the rails doesn’t mean it wasn’t a clue in the first place. Even if his mood was “mischievous,” perhaps that only means that he knew where the book cover would take us. With Froggy, there’s a chance that the clue still remains a clue. Perhaps about Morgan Deare?

Doesn’t look that way at all, I don’t think… The book cover posted by George was created for the film, so everything on the cover, in the blurb, or part of the author bio was written as filler for a prop, not as a clue.

That said, I think you’re right in that the post, if it is in fact a casting clue, must refer to Morgan Deare in some capacity. Just not sure if there’s evidence for Hoster Tully vs. some other character. Perhaps just his age?

Again on this, after a lot of thinking… Tim Roth is absolutely excellent and i HOPE to have him in the show… but playing what role?? He’s very good at quirky crazy smart badass characters… (which maybe, in GOT world, translates only to a non-dwarf Tyrion ;))… so Stannis is not really a good match. Unless they change him from the book… as far as we know from the lines already aired in episodes, Stannis does not “inspire love or loyalty… he’s not a king”…

i don’t know… it would be great to have him here, and since he was for 3 years in Lie To Me he would probably be ok with playing a long.term role… but.. STANNIS?? I don’t think so. Unless MAJOR changes happen…

Ah, okay I get it now. I (GRRM) am not Oliver King, but I did inspire him. Basically his post is entirely about how he inspired this new movie. Not sure why he said Oliver King as opposed to Horatio King, but this makes sense now.

At least we can say now that unless GRRM uses the STOCK Froggy icon, any other icon with Froggy in it may be a trick.

Kate Loughlin is a struggling actress trying to get a break in the London film industry. When she gets called to audition for the lead in a massive movie franchise based on the ‘Prince of Chaos’ series of novels by legendary author Horatio King, she seizes the opportunity.

That part all checks out, but the Oliver King (instead of Horatio King) issue is still nagging at me – although GRRM has made mistakes in his posts before.

If we remove the cover, than what do we have left as a clue? Oliver King? It seems like a typo for Horatio King to me.

I have no idea why GRRM would tag it ‘game of thrones’ or include the Froggy icon or make the whole thing so vague though. Why not just post the cover and explain what it is all about? Unless he wanted us to think it was a casting clue, just for a laugh. Annoying.

C2:
COMPLETELY grasping at straws here, but Joe “King” Oliver was inspired by Buddy Bolden.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0858419/
There’s apparently a movie being made about Buddy with Jackie Earle Haley as lead.
I realize I’m probably completely wrong on this….but beyond that I got nothing.

Graziano Manuele:
Tim Roth? “Lie To Me” has just been cancelled… and his character was called CAL Lightman….

paulgude:Graziano Manuele,
Also, “Admitting that betrayal exists at all,” could conceivably be accomplished by uttering, “Lie to me.”
Perhaps grasping at straws again, mostly because I want to believe it’s true.

I’m still convinced that this is indeed a casting clue (Froggy NEVER lies!), and that GRRM had the writing edited on the already existing prop cover to give us clues. And given the above, I say that Tim Roth is Roose Bolton!

His mood was “mischievous.” So he probably thought it was a tricky way of letting everyone know that there’s a movie inspired by him without naming it. And by using our finely tuned internet detective skills.

Its tagged “Game of Thrones” because it is a film inspired by the production of “Game of Thrones” the TV show. It is not, however, tagged HBO, which should be the first clue that it is not a casting clue.

Not your fault WIC, none of us caught it either, GRRM just needs to write a few more sentences on his post from now on… unless, as is my theory, he post something like that and then sits back with a mug of hot cocoa and just laughs….

It would figure that the first casting speculation thread I get to participate in isn’t actually based on a casting clue. :/ I was only a lurker when the casting for season 1 was going on (and always came to the posts after it had been figured out).

I guess the Froggy is still valid because he sent us out to find the movie, so it was tricky, in a way. It makes his “Give Dracula a Cigar” comment confirmation, perhaps, thinking we’d be satisfied with finding that.

However, his, “I’ll be back soon, I will, I will.” post was tagged with HBO:

If it isn’t a casting clue, then it has to be a bit of a joke on his part. Otherwise, why would GRRM have given the commenter (Vampire?) a cigar for guessing part of it correctly, but then not respond to the rest of the comment about not understanding the rest of the clues?

If this isn’t part of a larger casting clue (and it’s looking that’s possible) I don’t think it’s necessarily him being mean-spirited. I’d take it as him thinking that we’d think that them basing a show-within-a-show on Game of Thrones is cool.

Here’s my take for what its worth, the character they cast is Melisandre hint: flames ,crown signify Mel and her proximity to Stannis . The hint (Pillars of Time) points at pillars of the earth looking at the movies cast i find Hayley Atwell who physically wood make a perfect Mel enjoys nudity and Looking at her bio i finde the role (ANGELICA in the moview cassandra’s DREAM) which fits perfectly with the whole Preist having a dream of an Angel. So i would say Hayley Atwell has been cast as Mel!!……………or this might all be bullshit

Mirax: If it isn’t a casting clue, then it has to be a bit of a joke on his part. Otherwise, why would GRRM have given the commenter (Vampire?) a cigar for guessing part of it correctly, but then not respond to the rest of the comment about not understanding the rest of the clues?

I think in his own terse way, he was acknowledging that it was just about an upcoming movie.
When I first saw pictures of the man, I thought he reminded me of an old boss of mine. Now I see the similarity is not just physical.
He would send out terse, 2-3 word subject line emails with no text in the body. My coworkers and I would go and huddle together and try to figure out what cryptic he was trying to convey. Invariably, we determined the message meant “My blood sugar is low”.

paulgude, yeah, but even if he thought it was a cool way to announce this movie being based on him and his books and the TV show he had to have realized what people would perceive the post to be. The fact that he posted it anyway and didn’t correct people in the comments indicates that he wanted people to make that mistake.

I do think he fully knew how people would take it but was being a little bit of a prankster here. Inevitably, some people get annoyed by pranks. The key is to just laugh it off and wait for the real casting clues. I still think that maybe his post a few days ago about there being some casting news was true.

By the way, I can understand how it’s more annoying when you’re trying to report news, ha. As just a reader/fan, it’s probably less bothersome.

Winter Is Coming: paulgude, yeah, but even if he thought it was a cool way to announce this movie being based on him and his books and the TV show he had to have realized what people would perceive the post to be.

Which is why I’m still thinking this is a clue. If not, it kind of ruins the whole spirit of the ones in the past.

I genuinely don’t know whether the Oliver King was a typo or a real clue but the cover appears as it was designed and yes the character of Horatio is Texan in the film so my money would be on it being just a typo but I’m not half as clever at riddles as all of you so who knows. I think George was just sharing the news about the film though. Hope that helps.

Perhaps he hasn’t corrected anyone because he’s scrambling to call D&D and try to influence casting so that the text of the book retroactively becomes a valid clue.

Ha! I second

He may have just posted without thinking about the repercussions, and is now a slight bit embarrassed about all the ruckus he caused (as might be a certain wic.net reporter of whom we will not name names…)

Well, in this downtime from FakeCastingClueGate, I would just like to point out that auto-playing video ads are the most annoying thing ever: and they play every time I refresh. And I have been refreshing a lot over the past hour or so…

And since I’m refreshing at the bottom of the comments section, I can’t even click ‘pause’ because I have to scroll up 360 comments to find the ad.

Winter, I know ads are needed to support the site, but can they possibly just be of the normal variety in the future please?

I can’t believe that after all these years, casting clues, fan hysteria George still doesn’t understand his fans. The FROG George, the FROG!! Glad I started to prepare that dinner and just rread through all the comments.

It is from when WiC first received a scent box, and we found an vague bit of writing which read “Always support the bottom”. That sent us on a wild goose chase until it was confirmed that it was an error (similar to toady’s situation, maybe?). See this thread:

The only thing that could rectify this … this … skulduggery … is prompt casting news of monumental proportions. News of such a nature as to make our wildest casting dreams come true! Okay GRRM you got us. Let’s have it!

And this in the wedding-post:
“We are so happy to share the news with all our friends, old and new, the friends we have yet to meet, and with all of my (George’s) readers. And now we’ve off for a six-month Honeymoon trip around the world. See you when we get back.”

The Callback Queen sounds like it will be an entertaining movie for anyone who’s a fantasy fan. Romcoms are generally so one-note, but this one seems a bit different. It’s not every day you have romantic comedy mixed in with a derivative of ASOIAF. :) Best of luck to Amy with the film!

I love Hayley Atwell. Seriously: I think she’s a fabulous actor and is absolutely gorgeous. When you first mentioned her, I didn’t think I could see her as Mel at all. However, after a Google Image search, I may have changed my mind. She has a very unique almond shape to her eyes, which slightly hints at the exotic (I believe she is part Native American?). I think this is fitting with what we know of Asshai. I still have reservations (her skin is too dark and she’s not large enough with regards to height and shape), but I can possibly see it. Not a perfect match to my image of Melisandre, but I get where you’re coming from!

Not because he played a joke on us, but I thought he really went out of his way this time to give us some awesome clues. Like the way Rothfuss will commission artwork for his fans. (Well maybe a friend does it free, not sure.) When I first saw the book cover I was over the moon. I thought he spent the last couple of days between his initial tease and when that post went up, having someone create the book cover for him.

But no. I feel like Ralph in “A Christmas Story” with his Little Orphan Anne decoder. It was nothing but a crummy commercial.

I may have been guilty of premature froggery in the “Hiya, Kids” post below.

Second season casting is in full swing, yes.

And we’re close on a few roles. Choices made, that is to say, but now we wait on HBO approval, and then of course we have to make a deal. Not all deals close, much as you would like them to. There’s budget to consider, scheduling, all sorts of things.

On other roles, well, we’ve seen a lot of readings, but we’re not in love yet. So the auditions continue. In Ireland, in London, even in LA.

Bottom line: no one has been cast yet, so stop holding your breath.

When we do sign some new cast, Froggy will give you the hints.

(Unless someone else breaks the news first).

((Or unless it’s after June 13. That’s the day I leave for Poland. I’ll be out of the loop while overseas, so after that date, the announcements are more like to come from elsewhere)).